Greetings for Basant and Holi. This is the third year of Ektara, the online video magazine of history, society and culture of India and South Asia. We hope our stories and interviews will entertain and inspire you, and arouse your appetite for more about our rich and diverse pasts. Ektara magazine comes out once every two months. We need your support to keep it running.

In this new issue, we bring you the following short videos and segments:

1. Kausar Munir and Mukul Kesavan:
The language Bombay cinema speaks, part 2 of 2
Panel discussion as part of the international conference on the Popular Culture of Urdu Language held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (8-10 September 2017). Discussion facilitated by Rana Safvi. 3-day conference supported by IFA, Bangalore.First part of this discussion available at https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q1RP58oVPXU

2. Campaign: Justice for Ankit SaxenaAnkit Saxena, a young photographer was murdered for being in love with a Muslim girl in west Delhi's Raghubir Nagar. His family, which refused to make this a Hindu-Muslim communal issue, is appealing not only for justice, but also to begin a fund-raising campaign for activities on harmony and peace. Some organizations have come together to raise funds for Ankit's family. Please visit this page to make your contribution >>

3. Tamsili Mushaira (Allegorical gathering of Urdu poets), part 1 of 2As part of Urdu Heritage Festival (Jashn-e Virasat-e Urdu) organized by Urdu Academy Delhi, and arranged by Centre for Art and Free Expression, at Central park, Connaught Place, New Delhi, on 17 February, 2018. ('Tamsili' means allegorical, dramatic or figurative). Part 2 of this recording is available at https://youtube.com/watch?v=_7_cbF6UgcQ

4. Murad Khan Mumtaz: Sufis-Yogis, Visual and literary articulations
from Chandayan to Muraqqa-e SalimAn illustrated lecture by Murad Khan Mumtaz about exchanges between the Sufis and Nath Yogis as depicted in many classical medieval texts.